CHAPTER XXX

THE ACCUSERS BETAKE THEMSELVES TO FLIGHT, WHEN ATHANASIUS IS FOUND INNOCENT OF WHAT WAS FIRST LAID TO HIS CHARGE

MATTERS having been brought to this issue with regard to Arsenius, the contrivers of this imposture were reduced to the utmost perplexity; and Achab, who was also called John, one of the principal accusers, having slipped out of court, effected his escape in the tumult. Thus Athanasius cleared himself from this charge, without having recourse to any pleading; for he was confident that the sight only of Arsenius alive, would confound his calumniators.